News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Big Data"
Biosupremacy: Big Data, Antitrust, and Monopolistic Power Over Human Behavior
Since 2001, five leading technology companies have acquired more than 600 other firms while avoiding antitrust enforcement. By accumulating technologies in adjacent or unrelated industries, these companies have grown so powerful that…
Ethics review of big data research: What should stay and what should be reformed?
Complete author list: Agata Ferby Agata Ferretti, Marcello Ienca, Mark Sheehan, Alessandro Blasimme, Edward S. Dove, Bobbie Farsides, Phoebe Friesen, Jeff Kahn, Walter Karlen, Peter Kleist, S. Matthew Liao, Camille…
Data and COVID-19
Event Description John Snow famously used data to trace the source of a cholera outbreak, helping found the field of epidemiology. Data will play just as crucial a role in…
Health Law Workshop: Jacob T. Elberg: Corporate Health Care Enforcement at a Crossroads: Newly Available Data and the Need for Comprehensive False Claims Act Reform
Presentation Topic: "Corporate Health Care Enforcement at a Crossroads: Newly Available Data and the Need for Comprehensive False Claims Act Reform" About the Presenter Jacob T. Elberg is Associate Professor…
Apple’s Reach Reshapes Medical Research: The company’s tools enable researchers to track huge numbers of people. But doctors do not yet know if it will significantly improve health outcomes.
[...] The new ingredients allowing the huge scale: Apple’s iPhones, apps and money. Harvard’s new study is just one of three new large research efforts that Apple…
With ‘Project Nightingale,’ Google Amassing Health Care Data On Millions Of Patients Without Their Knowledge
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Google launched the initiative with St. Louis-based Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices and other…
Google to acquire Fitbit for $2.1 billion in major health tech deal
SAN FRANCISCO — Google parent company Alphabet announced on Friday it will buy Fitbit for $2.1 billion — a massive deal that will pit Google squarely against Apple (AAPL) in the…
Data Privacy 3.0: Are We Ready for AI?
Description How can India take advantage of data to achieve its developmental objectives while balancing the need for personal privacy? The recently implemented Account Aggregator framework tries to establish a…
A Doctor’s Touch: What Big Data in Health Care Can Teach Us About Predictive Policing
From the abstract: We take two professions — police officers and doctors — and place their experiences with big data in dialogue. Policing and medicine, while naturally different in some…
2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies
Couldn't join us for the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter with #DTCgenome! And check out many of our speakers' slide presentations and our "Consuming Genetics" blog symposium! The…
What Should Happen to Our Medical Records When We Die?: Digital Health @ Harvard
Couldn't join us at the event? Check out our presenter's slides! Description Digital innovation is transforming health care, and the amount of digital health care data being generated…
Privacy in the age of medical big data
From the article: "Big data has come to medicine. Its advocates promise increased accountability, quality, efficiency, and innovation. Most recently, the rapid development of machine-learning techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)…
Health Law Workshop: Natalie Ram
Presentation Topic: "Rebuilding Privacy Practices after Carpenter" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich at jminnich@law…
Big questions raised by big data: Berkman Klein and Petrie-Flom centers co-sponsor book launch event on big data, health law and bioethics
From the article: During the introduction to the book launch event for “Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics,” one of the editors, Harvard Law School Professor I. Glenn…
The Ethics of Smart Pills and Self-Acting Devices: Autonomy, Truth-Telling, and Trust at the Dawn of Digital Medicine
From the abstract: Digital medicine is a medical treatment that combines technology with drug delivery. The promises of this combination are continuous and remote monitoring, better disease management, self-tracking, self-management…
Book Launch: Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out coverage from HLS Today and view some of the panelists' slide presentations below! Description In March 2018, Cambridge University Press published Big…
Drug Approval in a Learning Health System
From the article: The current system of FDA approval seems to make few happy. Some argue FDA approves drugs too slowly; others too quickly. Many agree that FDA—and…
Call for Abstracts: Data Min(d)ing: Privacy and Our Digital Identities, Office of the Chief Information Officer: Department of Health and Human Services
General Description: As we go about our daily lives, we leave a digital trail of data. Data points from what we share on social media, pings from our internet-connected devices,…
Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
Now available - order it online! From the book: When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health - from our habits at the grocery…
Risk and Resilience in Health Data Infrastructure
From the journal article: Today’s health system runs on data. However, for a system that generates and requires so much data, the health care system is surprisingly bad…